Baby bat

Poor little thing ... years ago we had Bats flying over our garden until a boyfriend of our daughters turned up with a decibel reading meter one evening ... turned it on and we haven't seen or heard of a Bat since! Or the boyfriend! Stupid boy ...

Hi Sue, did it survive the fall, or is it dead? I haven't seen any bats flying round my garden this year, {yet}, but there again I haven't seen many moths either, lousy summer up here !!, Derek.

aww I hope he gets on OK.

Ha ha ..........Shirley, that made me laugh ....Stupid Boy (not called Pike, was he?)

Don't panic!!!

We're all doomed!

Why doomed Shirley? I never heard of bats being frightened away by a bat detector! They are amazing little devices, you can identify the type of bat by the pattern of clicks you hear.

Snoop did you know you need a license to handle bats - not joking!

Derek and Bathgate - don't know what happened to it as it was put in the garage in a plastic tray with a cloth over it to keep it cool during the day and in the evening when we went to get it out to put the tray up on the roof for the night in case Mum came along to rescue it it had disappeared. So we have no idea what happened to it. It was very unlikely to survive anyway. A sad little story really but we did our best.

Stera, all of those comments were from a TV comedy 'Dad's Army' ... am I correct in thinking you don't have a TV?

They are nocturnal so he probably flew off in the night and joined up with the rest of the flock.

I think Paul, if I remember rightly Stera said (in the comments on my blog) that this little fella disappeared during the day.

I got the Pike parts. And they made me laugh. Nice to have a joke.

Bathgate it was shut in the garage during the day as they need to be cool in the daytime. We have no idea where it went as it couldn't have got out. It was too young to be able to fly anyway - all explained in my blog.

Shirley yes you're right, we are TV-less - always have been for the last 45 years! have seen lots of old Dads Army repeats on the computer though. Didn't know there was a current series running.

Snoop I wonder what that little bat was doing on the lawn - was it a very young one like the one we found? Hope your squirrel bite didn't get infected, bites can be nasty.

Stera, no current series running that I'm aware of. I think we all just have fond memories of the programme and the many memorable funny comments :o)

Now I recognise Don't Panic, but not We are all doomed....

Private James Frazer, a Scotsman, often said those words in a dour way!

Ah, I remember him...
Forgot to mention I do like your coleus avatar.

Not a Coleus, Stera ... a vine leaf in the Autumn on our grape vine ... thanks for liking it :o)

Well well, fooled again...its very pretty anyway.

Thanks, Stera ... :o)

We use to see them flying about in the evenings but haven't seen any for ages .......

OH saw one or two last summer but I didn't. There are some of the rarer ones in this county but not near us.

Just had a good giggle Amy - I was looking down my comments column just now. There was quite a long list of comments on the hellebores and then yours about seeing them flying about in the evening - startling until I realised you were talking about bats not flowers...lol.

Update: having seen some bats emerging from the eves in 2017 we contacted the Bat Conservation Trust this year and did a count for them. There were 176! You have to start just after sunset and stay for about an hour or until no more emerge. You are then supposed to watch again in the early morning and count them in again but guess where we were at dawn - give you a clue - it wasn't leaning on the hedge staring up at the gable end..Enough is enough!

Hi Sue, that's a lot of bats to have under your eves, I don't think I would have counted them back either, Derek.

Just looking around photos and found this one of your baby bat. The parents carry their young with them while hunting etc, so perhaps the parent found the baby and it clung to it's mum. Who knows but just a thought Sterra.

I found a dead one once and have kept it. It fascinates some people, especially kids. I'm rather attached to it after all this time!